Chilean Baptist volunteers improving quality of life for emergency housing.

The World Is Coming To Chile

The Baptist World Alliance is
holding its annual meetings in Santiago in July. This is a new experience for both
Baptist conventions in Chile.

A handful of leaders who always
attend BWA meetings have told Chilean churches for many years about the rich
experiences of this global fellowship. Now the opportunity is for Chilean
Baptists to know firsthand the diversity and depth of the Baptist experience of
mission.

All church members in Chile can
attend meetings where commissions share experience in evangelism, missions,
theological education, and religious liberty.

Several years ago when the
president of our convention attended his first BWA meeting in Spain, he
remarked, “it was like opening the door into a
much bigger house than I had ever imagined.”

Please pray for the meetings during the
first week of July.

Pray
that our Chilean partners may feel at home in this grand Baptist family and
forge ties that bind us together in mission.

ABC Leaders Tour Earthquake/Tsunami Relief Sites

Right after the BWA meetings,
several of our ABC leaders will visit the places around Concepcion where we
ministered to earthquake/tsunami survivors.

Roy Medley (ABC General
Secretary), Ruth Clark (ABC President), Hector Gonzalez (former ABC President),
along with our Area Director Jose Norat, and FBC-Lansdale, PA pastor Kent
Berghuis will spend three days with us, seeing firsthand the ways your One
Great Hour of Sharing offerings changed people’s
lives. This is another good opportunity for our churches in this area to enjoy
these leaders and strengthen our ties.

Then Pastor Kent Berghuis and his
son, Jacob, will spend a few days with us in Temuco and around Curihue . He
will teach at a branch of the Theological Institute in Temuco, sit in on a Mapudungun class, and teach a class at the Instituto Berea, and preach in
Curihue. In Temuco we'll introduce him to some of the Girls' Clubs and he'll also present a new wool carder to a spinners' group. The wool carder is donated by FBC-Lansdale, PA and Grace Baptist Church of Blue Bell, PA (our home church).

His church, FBC-Lansdale, PA is a
strong supporter of the wool spinning, weaving and beekeeping projects.

Once again, we have the
opportunity to be ministered to by him, and strengthen the ties that bind us in
this great mission of making disciples of Jesus.